I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
Our lives are never certain even for an hour.
(pl. ) of Uncertainty
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
When we are not sure we are alive.
When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
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